Jour de Nutella

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVHhDMwP4PKV1wBPJaE6UM6_4E1KCTs464GfUL3g5O8NZC-eZqo9s2OdOlrd_CMp5mByh6jxSnW-i1_b2zhfkdgHtAGY2sSli2IzE8UZplyb3sZAgLDwhAFnRbjacYy9XOSBhHCg9oTjA/s1600/2010+June+17-18+DSC_0494+-bw+light.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVHhDMwP4PKV1wBPJaE6UM6_4E1KCTs464GfUL3g5O8NZC-eZqo9s2OdOlrd_CMp5mByh6jxSnW-i1_b2zhfkdgHtAGY2sSli2IzE8UZplyb3sZAgLDwhAFnRbjacYy9XOSBhHCg9oTjA/s640/2010+June+17-18+DSC_0494+-bw+light.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">World Nutella Day</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Today you can celebrate "World Nutella Day 2013" - a day to eat Nutella, to spread it on a croissant or a baguette.  If you are in a hurry, you can just eat it off a big spoon.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There are probably hundred of ways to use Nutella and if you have something special in mind like Nutella Baklava, a Nutella Gooey Butter Cake, or Nutella Mascarpone Chocolate Tarts, just let me know and I will send you a link to recipes.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Whether the "day" of Nutella is celebrated in Paris or not, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">you cannot miss seeing the big brown jar wherever crêpes are made. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">miam-miam</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">World Nutella Day</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">5 fevrier, 2013</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">  </div>

Jour de Nutella

World Nutella Day Today you can celebrate "World Nutella Day 2013" - a day to eat Nutella, to spread it on a croissant or a baguet...

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Crêpe - Barbe à Papa - Glace?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH_9QKlMm7j2iKQJwTDVR80iyg7CfQzccs9RmgKa1mWmi3Om6aKucJEifgAwX-JcTenqvb512XO0tt84Q3uvNupnqULB92qNR8tXdLWY6gZUOwzBkQPnJ9n9kNrL1l9smk-esR0q32aB8/s1600/2012+Oct+4+Thursday_280DSC_8372.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH_9QKlMm7j2iKQJwTDVR80iyg7CfQzccs9RmgKa1mWmi3Om6aKucJEifgAwX-JcTenqvb512XO0tt84Q3uvNupnqULB92qNR8tXdLWY6gZUOwzBkQPnJ9n9kNrL1l9smk-esR0q32aB8/s640/2012+Oct+4+Thursday_280DSC_8372.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Crêpe? Cotton Candy? Ice cream?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On most every trip to Paris </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have a banana, Nutella, ice cream crêpe from a street vendor like this...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">for a friend </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well, somebody has to do it</span></i><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ice cream vendor</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Place de la Bastille</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75004, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>

Crêpe - Barbe à Papa - Glace?

Crêpe? Cotton Candy? Ice cream? On most every trip to Paris  I have a banana, Nutella, ice cream crêpe from a street vendor like this... for...

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La Chandeleur -- le jour des crêpes

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaaWcDsP6GlKzxTmcM5iyeFrPBJ09HdGouqxZLs6caUJSa7CLRRRcwybxoeqNWFFbEpz2cBfCBCA64wd_Hne8QTbH5SYooJXO9LLwS7b_0r8N9NhrgJjw7c2gNc6JM48BF9KPxIw2Kjmo/s1600/2012+jan+15+2nd_0420+b-w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="472" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaaWcDsP6GlKzxTmcM5iyeFrPBJ09HdGouqxZLs6caUJSa7CLRRRcwybxoeqNWFFbEpz2cBfCBCA64wd_Hne8QTbH5SYooJXO9LLwS7b_0r8N9NhrgJjw7c2gNc6JM48BF9KPxIw2Kjmo/s640/2012+jan+15+2nd_0420+b-w.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For this crêpe maker, every day is <em>le jour des crêpes</em>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Catholic feast day, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation_of_Jesus_at_the_Temple"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">La Chandeleur</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, celebrates the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple 40 days after Christmas, on February 2nd.  It is also referred to as "Candlemas" or Candle Mass for the blessing of beeswax candles used in the church all during the year.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In France the day is celebrated with crêpes which must be eaten only after 8:00pm.  If the cook can flip a crêpe while holding a coin in the other hand, the family is guaranteed a prosperous year.  The many rituals and superstitions surrounding this date include the Groundhog Day test of whether or not the little animal sees his shadow.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We always have crêpes (if I am not traveling), and Holly goes out for her crêpes with friends.  I think that my photo is going to give you two days of feasts in one as Sunday (February 5) is </span><a href="http://www.nutelladay.com/"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">World Nutella Day</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">!  I think that I will have my crêpes with bananas, Nutella, ice cream, and a little dollop of Chantilly cream.  It is after all a <u>feast</u>!  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Will you have savory or sweet crêpes?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Rue Mouffetard</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75005, Paris </em></span></div>

La Chandeleur -- le jour des crêpes

For this crêpe maker, every day is le jour des crêpes . The Catholic feast day, La Chandeleur , celebrates the Presentation of Jesus at the ...

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NO CRÊPES FOR YOU!

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigJOywk_1wU1DG_s0xMLJaxOxTR8Zq6WCGaLk9uU9Mkbat-IQEeUVuELeRlpHbc5LCHCWbtHOGyfhTnraATcK8ejdCeThbkMvazm4aMK4CGPYhJj1uWdS_y1ecfyVym3Zw0b-8CTXuHCY/s1600/DSC_0279.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499894800619628706" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigJOywk_1wU1DG_s0xMLJaxOxTR8Zq6WCGaLk9uU9Mkbat-IQEeUVuELeRlpHbc5LCHCWbtHOGyfhTnraATcK8ejdCeThbkMvazm4aMK4CGPYhJj1uWdS_y1ecfyVym3Zw0b-8CTXuHCY/s640/DSC_0279.JPG" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><div>Well, I did leave out an "erie" place with delectable food in my post from yesterday: <strong>crêperie</strong>! However, this is more a street-vendor than a true crêperie.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>In June he was at the corner of St. Germain and rue Bonaparte, in front of St. Germain des Prés church, with a steady line of customers day and night. We saw him several times each day as we exited the Mètro St. Germain des Prés. Certainly, it was necessary to have a banana and Nutella crêpe, but more than one?</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I believe that Nutella is originally from Italy, but crêpes on the street just screams Paris to me! I carried jars home from Paris until I realized that the magic of the internet would bring this nectar right to my door. Even Delta Airlines has little individual packets in their club rooms now. Well, they did until someone (?) scarfed them all! Miam-miam.....</div>

NO CRÊPES FOR YOU!

Well, I did leave out an "erie" place with delectable food in my post from yesterday: crêperie ! However, this is more a street-ve...

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